Manifesto Instructions

Prof. Anna Carson DeWitt

Spring 2015

 George Washington University

Final Manifesto Instructions

For your final activity this semester, please review your notes on the manifesto, as well as the manifesto portion of your Position Paper, and write a two-page personal manifesto reflecting your own philosophy towards, perspective on, approach to, and goals regarding international aid, global development, and voluntourism.

Some questions to consider:

-What is your personal, holistic perspective on international aid, global development, and voluntourism?

-What concrete goals do have regarding your future involvement in or inquiry into international aid, global development, and voluntourism?

-What core values underpin this perspective and these goals?

-How have these perspectives, goals, and values changed over the course of the semester?

-As this semester of study comes to a close, what questions remain?

The nitty gritty:

-Two-three pages

-As always, pay special attention not just to content, but also to structure and style. I would assume that you will be writing in the first person in this case.

-Carefully proofread, with citations if necessary (outside sources are not required).

-APA formatted

-Delivered by the end of class on Monday via Googledrive.

-This activity is designed to take two hours. Don’t overdo it. You’ve got other stuff on your plate, too.

Good luck! I had a total blast with ya’ll. I can’t wait to stay in touch and see what you do next!

Course-Wide Extension: Project #3

Hi, friends:

So, my (no longer secret) rule is that if I grant reasonable extensions to more than five people for a paper, I feel it's unfair not to offer the same extension to the other members of a course.  We hit that tipping point, SO!

I will accept Project #3 by Midnight on Monday 4/27. If you are on track to be finished tomorrow, I suggest you stay the course-- then you'll have a nicer weekend!

Happy end-of-semester traffic jam,
Anna

Project #3 Rubric

UW1020 Final Research Project Rubric

LIT REVIEW

Content  /10
-Includes your project question, clearly stated in italics, at the top of the first page

-Integrates citation, content, and analysis of each of the five sources required for the research project

-Compares, contrasts, and categorizes the sources to determine how to speak to the research topic

-Compares, contrasts, and categorizes the sources to determine how to speak to one another

Structure /10
-Is organized into clear paragraphs according to defined source categories

Style 9/10
-Is written in a formal scholarly voice, omitting the first person
-Includes in-text citations for all outside quotations, facts and ideas
-Includes an APA formatted works cited page

ESSAY

Is predicated on a clear and focused question  /10

Integrates meaningfully each of six sources, using a mixture of quantitative and qualitative material   /10

Considers the way sources speak to the research question and each other  /10

Follows an exploratory structure  /10

Uses both exposition, narrative, and lyric in affective and engaging proportions   /10

Employs a consistent and engaging tone, with special attention to point of view  /10

Is carefully edited and proofread  /10

Total: 100

Lit Review Rundown

So, friends, as promised! Some info about Lit Reviews.

Believe it or not, the most comprehensive resource guide I've found comes from Baltimore Public School. Whodathunkit! It's HERE.

Note that a lit review, unlike an annotated bibliography, is written in paragraph form like an essay.

Also, here is the rubric I'll use to grade the LR. Keep in mind that formatting and standards for Lit Reviews vary widely, so be sure to use THESE standards (and no others) to create and format your LR:


CONTENT

Includes your project question, clearly stated in italics, at the top of the first page
Integrates citation, content, and analysis of each of the five sources required for the research project
Compares, contrasts, and categorizes the sources to determine how to speak to the research topic
Compares, contrasts, and categorizes the sources to determine how to speak to one another

STRUCTURE

Is organized into clear paragraphs according to defined categories

STYLE

Is written in a formal scholarly voice, omitting the first person

CITATION

Includes in-text citations for all outside quotations, facts and ideas
Includes an APA formatting works cited page


Good luck and have fun!
Anna

GW email not working

Hi, friends,

Just wanted to let you know that my GW faculty email is down for some reason. If you have anything urgent, feel free to contact me at anna.carson.dewitt@gmail.com.

See you soon!

Anna

BOTH SECTIONS! CLASS AT GELMAN TODAY!

Just a friendly reminder :)

We will meet in the Gelman Lobby at class time. If you come late, please meet us in Gelman Room 300.

See you soon!

Anna

Pre-Research Activity (Class in Library on Wed!)

We will meet on Wednesday in the lobby of the library on Foggy. For your homework, please complete this Pre-Research sheet, post it to your blog, and bring a printed copy of it to our research session, along with the two-three sentences statement of your official topic question. See you at Foggy!

Reading for 3/27: Rodriguez

For Fri. 3/27, please read "Nakedness in the Digital Age", and respond on your blog. This will be the third and final example essay for Project #3. Enjoy!

Project #3: Begging the Questions

Hi, friends! I'm excited to introduce the third and final project today! Can't wait to see what you come up with.

Anna

Reading for Wed. 3/25: Walker

Dear Friends,

For Wednesday, please read and respond to Alice Walker's In Search of our Mother's Gardens.

Looking forward to hearing your thoughts!

Anna

ONLINE CLASS ACTIVITY (no in-person class) for Friday 3-20

INSTEAD OF COMING TO CLASS, please read "Consider the Lobster" by David Foster Wallace, and respond on your blog! I'll be sending good wishes from sunny Tampa. I'll be in a hotel conference room not enjoying the sun.

I want you to think in particular about Wallace's structure. How does his medium shape his message? How does it relate to Graham's idea of the ideal essay?

Have fun!

In-class reading 3/16: Media Ecology

In class today, we'll look at an excerpt from this article on Media Ecology. Please read from the middle of page 130 (starting with "Media Ecology is...." through the first paragraph of page 132 (ending with "...specific messages".

In-class reading 3/18: "The Age of the Essay"

Students! So far, you have written a (position) paper, and you are currently creating a multi-media product. So! Your final paper will be an essay. In class on Wednesday, we will read Paul Graham's thoughts about essay-ness, and discuss them.

Things to think about-- is your "natural form" of writing closer to a paper, or closer to an essay? Which do you think you are more often assigned to do in classes?

Position Paper Grades Up on GoogleDrive

Hi, friends,

Your position papers are graded and up on Drive. Let me know if you have any trouble with the PDF, and feel free to make an office hours appointment to go over it!

Go team!
Anna

Switching to Skype Meetings Friday 3-6-15

Friends,

Because all the buses seem to be running behind, and the schedule is packed, I think we'll have a much better chance of keeping conferences running on time and making sure everyone gets their due time today if I meet with each of you on Skype today. 

To meet with me, please contact me at anna.carson.dewitt on Skype at your assigned conference time. I'll look forward to chatting!

IF FOR SOME REASON YOU PREFER TO TALK IN PERSON, you are welcome to switch your conference over to the Monday 3/16 or Wed 3/18.  I've added sign-up slots on those days to accomodate that. Please respond to this email and let know if you choose to do that.

See you on Skype (if we didn't meet Wed)!

Anna

Project Two Sheet

Hi, friends, Here is the Project Two Assignment Sheet. Can't wait to see what you come up with!

Anna

Group Arts Bibliography: Step Two

Good job so far, dudes!

This weekend, please write a 100-word blurb for each of your four chosen GAB sources, describing in the third person how that piece connects up to our course theme generally, and/or to your areas of interest in the course theme specifically.

Have fun!

Friday Reading 2/20: Forche and hooks

Dear Friends,

Today in class we'll read Carolyn Forche's thoughts on the poetry of witness, and bell hook's thoughts on viewing art. Enjoy!

Group Arts Bibliography: Step One

Hi, Friends,

Here are the link we'll be using in for the Group Arts Bib Homework class. Using the keywords you've prepared, please choose ONE piece from EACH site to read/listen to/gaze upon/etc for your homework. Then, for your review, please write a 100-word summary or description of each piece and publish it on your blog (that'll be 400 words total).

Have fun!
Anna

1. Longreads
2. Poetry Foundation
3. TedTalks
4. MoMa

For to be completed Wed. 2/16.

Dear Friends,

Please read pages 61-72 in the numbering of the publication ( Cultural Contact and Schismogenesis) from Gregory Bateson's Step to an Ecology of Mind. Respond on your blog and come ready to discuss!

Uh....have fun.

!
Anna

Position Paper Grading Rubric

Here ya go! You're so close! See you tomorrow!

GWUW1020 Paper #1 Rubric

Content:

·      Based upon a specific, pertinent issue in Global Development, providing clear, ample background, and reflecting a variety of possible viewpoints. /10

·      Takes a well-defined and rigorously proven position on the issue, identifying problems and proposing solutions. /10

·      Employs clear quantitative reasoning backed by concrete and reputable evidence. /10

·      Employs compelling qualitative reasoning based upon profession conversations and original thinking. /10

·      Positions itself within a larger conversation on global development. /10

·      Contains a minimum of three original (you make them!) infographics, charts, graphs, or tables representing real quantitative information pertinent to the issue at hand and your position on it. /10

Structure

·      Begins with five pages of paragraphed, discursive writing (the first two pages of which will comprise your manifesto) /10

·      Ends with by three pages of bulleted writing/ listing/ and charts/graphs/tables. /10

Style

·      Written for an audience of professional peers, with an appropriately academic and neutral tone, omitting the first and second person. /10

·      Contain proper APA citations for all outside sources and reflect rigorous proofreading for typos, grammar, punctuation and APA formatting. /10

Late 2/9

Friends,

There's an accident on the highway from NOVA and I may be late. While you wait, please write out nine questions for your peer editing partner: three about content, three about structure, and three about style.

Thanks!
Anna

Research For Position Paper

Hi, friends. For your research for the Position Paper, we'll focus our efforts on the Global Affairs Databases of the GW Library. Happy hunting!

Please select five official sources and post their citation information to your blog for Wednesday.

Position Paper Assignment Sheet

Students! I am proud to present your POSITION PAPER ASSIGNMENT SHEET! Let's do this.

Weekend Homework 1-23: Hunting for Conversations

Dear friends,

For your homework this weekend, please browse the CIAO Database using the keyworks you created in class, and identify three conversations within global aid/development that interest you. Write a paragraph describing each conversation, the different perspectives that people take within it, and the position that you feel most drawn to. Post these paragraphs to your blog, along with bibiographic info for the articles you browsed.

Have fun!
Anna

Online Class Activity: Quantitative and Qualitative Research

Hi, Folks,

Because I'm sick, please complete the following activity ONLINE (rather than in the classroom), and post your notes as blog entry. Do not come to class. I will not be there. I will be at home, grooving on my antibiotics and feeling sorry for myself.

Because this is kind of a big job, this will serve as the class activity for today AND THE HOMEWORK READING FOR FRIDAY. That means the blog entry will be due by class time on Friday. You're welcome.

First, please print, read, and annotate the USC Library Guides for Quantitative and Qualitative research/data. Of course, you'll need to bring a printed copy to Friday's class.

Then, please print, read, and annotate "Communication Accommodation in Intercultural Encounters" by Giles and Noels. Of course, you'll need to bring a printed copy to Friday's class.

Finally, please write a blog entry that addresses the following questions. It may be in the form of notes and lists (it doesn't have to be paragraphed, but it can be if you want).

• Write a precis of each USC article.
• Write a precis of the Giles article.
• Chunk the Giles article and write at least five one-sentence section summaries.
• What are five examples of quantitative information in the Giles article?
• What are five examples of qualitative information in the Giles article?
• What are the different roles that quant. and qual. info play in Giles' effort?
• How do quant. and qual. info interact with one another within the article?
• How might the Giles article, its purpose, and the quant/qual data that it shares be useful to folks studying Global Aid?
• How do Giles ideas relate to Hegel's ideas about the self and the other?

Again, you don't need to write this in paragraph form, but make sure to write down your ideas carefully, so that I understand your thinking.  You should write AT LEAST a few good sentences worth of insight/ideas/notes for each of the above questions. This will take a while-- that's why it double as your class work and your homework.

Thanks for being understanding about my illness. Stay healthy. Go team. I hate Winter.

Anna

Weekend Reading for 1/16: Sample Position Paper

Dear Friends,

Over the weekend, please review this sample position paper. Pay particular attention to the style, content, and formatting. You would be wise to use your written response to reflect generally on what a position paper seems to be in terms of content, goals, audience and style. Who writes position papers? What is their goal? What sorts of issues might a position paper address?

Remember, we don't have class on Monday (MLK Day), so the response for this is due Wednesday.

Have fun!

Anna

what to call that place we don't live in

Hey, friends,

Today we will take a peek at the think piece, "If You Shouldn't Call it the Third World, What Should You Call It?", from the NPR blog Goats and Soda. Looking forwarding to hearing what you think.

Anna

Blogger Troubleshooting

Hi, friends,

Looks like Blogger is being a bit buggy for some of you. The first thing you might try is creating the blog with your personal Gmail-- sometimes the GWU Googletools are cranky.

For general help setting up your blog, check out this guide.

Finally, if you'd prefer to use Wordpress or Tumblr or some other service, that's fine with me.

Good luck!
Anna

Intro Email Instructions

This week, I'd also like for you to write to me an email of introduction (due Wed). I'm looking forward to talking to each of you one-on-one, but this helps get the ball rolling.

Please write me a carefully proofread, paragraphed letter introducing yourself in relationship to the course topic and goals. Skip the basic personal stuff since we'll do that in class, and try and answer these questions:

• What (if any) are your personal writing goals for this course?
• What (if any) are your scholarly writing goals for this course?
• What (if any) are your professional writing goals for this course?
• What are your feelings about the course topic and title? 
• Do you have any preexisiting experience or hold any preexisting opinions related to the course topic?
• What are five questions about writing that you'd like to answer over the course of the semester?
• What are five questions about the course topic that you'd like to answer over the course of the semester?

Finally, please create your Blogger Blog, and share the URL with me at the end of this email.

Thanks for your patience during all of this start-up stuff! We'll get into the swing of things as quickly as we everly can.

Anna

Reading Response Instructions

For each item you read, you'll need to write a minimum 250 word blog response. If there is more than one reading assignment due on a given day, you should write 250 words or EACH item, although you may choose to combine them into a single response paper that integrates discussion of each piece (3 pieces due = EITHER three 250-word response OR one 750-word response).

So long as the writing is properly polished and proofread with complete sentences, clear thoughts, and proper mechanics, you may write whatever you like concern the reading in question. You may summarize it, discuss it, problematize it, ask questions about it, analyze it-- the list goes on.

You will turn in the reading responses by posting them to your blog. That's it!

Reading for the Week of 1-12

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Hi friends! Here is this week's reading assignments (click to download), along with the discussion dates for each document. You should write a 250 word response for EACH document, or a 500 word response that deals with both on any given discussion day. Remember to PRINT each of these, and bring the hard copy to the discussion day.

For Wed: Read Atwood, listen to Paul Farmer on Fresh Air

For Fri: Read Berenson and Stupart

Looking forward to hearing what you think!
Anna